Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Fifty Vin Tries to Defeat the Sedative That’s our dear, impulsive Vin. Drinking the drugged wine before five minutes had passed. Elend would have stewed in the cavern for days before making that same decision. I went back and forth on how difficult it might be to open those cans. I…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Forty-Nine Sazed’s Memorization Skills Okay, long chapter here. I’ll bet I have to split this annotation in two. But, let’s launch into it. First off, you should know that Sazed tends to gloss over just how hard he had to work to memorize those copperminds of his in the first place.…
Annotation- Defending Elysium It’s hard to dig back through my memory to the days when I wrote the rough draft of this story. What was going through my head? The story was written on a beach near Monterey California, and remains the only published piece of mine I did entirely in longhand before transcribing to…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Forty-Seven The Death of Bilg You may not recognize a cameo appearance by Bilg in this chapter. He was the soldier who punched Demoux. Who is Bilg? Well, if you go read book one, you’ll find a scene where Kelsier visits the caves where his army is training. He picks a…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Forty-Five “Reen” is Ruin Did you really think I’d bring Reen back? Well, maybe you did. It’s all right if you did; we in the fiction world have kind of acclimatized people to strange resurrections of long-dead characters. I’d guess it’s due to one of two things. Either 1) The author…
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Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Forty-Four Subtlety with the Power The Lord Ruler created koloss, kandra, and Inquisitors during his time holding the power. This took some practice and experimentation, however. As has been explained, holding the power granted some intuitive understanding of how to use it. For instance, he knew how to make Hemalurgic creatures—but…
